| 19D | 20B | 21A | 22B | 23D | 24C | 25A |
| 26D | 27B | 28D | 29C | 30A |
Joy: I got two tickets for Sunday. Sending you the picture.
| RIVER ROAD THEATER |
|---|
| The Long Road Home |
| Sunday · 4:00 p.m. · Screen 1 |
| Row F, seats 7 and 8 |
| Student 150 · No food inside |
| Free water at the service desk |
Ken: Four o'clock is fine. How long is the film?
Joy: Two hours and ten minutes, so we will be out before seven.
Ken: Then let us eat first; I do not want a stomachache in there. The ticket says no food inside anyway.
喬伊：我買到兩張星期天的票。照片傳給你。
| 河路戲院 |
|---|
| 《返家長路》 |
| 星期日 · 下午 4:00 · 第 1 廳 |
| F 排 7、8 號 |
| 學生票 150 · 內場禁止飲食 |
| 服務台提供免費飲水 |
肯：四點可以。電影多長？
喬伊：兩小時十分鐘，所以七點前就會出來。
肯：那我們先吃東西吧，我不想在裡面肚子痛。反正票上寫內場不能吃。
This year's play: a story set in a small town in 1950
There are eleven speaking parts and about twenty other jobs: lights, sound, clothes, a roller blade scene, and the picture on the stage wall. Please tell us if you would rather work behind the stage; those places fill up faster than the acting ones.
We practice twice a week until March. If you cannot come to every practice, say so now. It is not a problem, but we must know before we choose.
今年的戲：一個一九五〇年小鎮的故事
共有十一個有台詞的角色，以及約二十個其他工作：燈光、音效、服裝、一場直排輪的戲，以及舞台牆上的那幅畫。如果你比較想在幕後工作，請告訴我們，那些位置比演出的角色更快額滿。
我們每週練習兩次，直到三月。如果你無法每次都到，現在就說。這不是問題，但我們必須在選角前知道。
Dear Mr. Kao,
I listen to your Sunday show while I work in my father's shop. I am writing about last week's show on old films.
You said that nobody under twenty watches black and white films now. I am seventeen. My class watched one in March, and four of us have watched five more since then. We did not find them slow; we found them quiet, which is not the same thing.
I am not writing to argue. I am writing because a young person listening to that line might believe it is true of him, and stop before he starts. Could you say on air that some of us are out here?
Chen Li, 17
親愛的高先生：
我在父親的店裡工作時都會聽您星期天的節目。我想談談上週關於老電影的那集。
您說現在二十歲以下的人不會看黑白片。我十七歲。我們班三月看過一部，之後我們有四個人又多看了五部。我們不覺得它們慢，我們覺得它們安靜，這是兩回事。
我不是要跟您爭論。我寫信是因為，一個聽到那句話的年輕人可能會以為那說的就是自己，還沒開始就先停下來了。您能不能在節目上說一句，我們這些人是存在的？
陳立，17 歲
Every country in the world has some form of drama, and no country had to be taught it. Children begin to act out other people before they can read.
One reason may be that watching a person act out a life is a safe way to feel something real. In two hours we can lose a home, forgive a brother, and stand in a court, and then walk out into the same evening we left.
A film also lets us look at a face longer than we ever may in life. We watch somebody be afraid for a full minute without turning away. Perhaps that is the true work of drama: it gives us practice at paying attention to another person, which is the one skill no machine has learned to do for us.
世界上每個國家都有某種形式的戲劇，而且沒有一個國家是被教會的。孩子在會讀字之前，就已經開始扮演別人。
一個原因也許是：看著一個人演出另一段人生，是感受真實情緒的安全方式。在兩個小時裡，我們可以失去一個家、原諒一個兄弟、站上法庭，然後走出去，回到自己離開時的同一個傍晚。
電影也讓我們能比現實中更久地注視一張臉。我們可以整整一分鐘看著某個人害怕，而不必移開視線。也許那才是戲劇真正的功用：它讓我們練習專注在另一個人身上，而這正是機器至今仍無法替我們做的一件事。